The World Urban Forum (WUF) convened by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the technical forum of key global stakeholders on responses to a rapidly urbanising world. It has been held since 2002 to guide implementation of related goals in the Millennium Development Goals to 2015 and now for the Sustainable Development Goals...

The Provincial Upgrading Informal Settlements Forum has been commended for its tremendous improvement in tackling informal settlements in Mpumalanga. The National Upgrading Support Programme (NUSP) acknowledged this during the quarterly workshop held in Mbombela last week.
The quarterly forum was launched late in 2016 with the aim of tackling the ever increasing informal settlements issues and...

The Minister of Human Settlements Lindiwe Sisulu says South Africa will interact with the international community to find solutions to the problems of rapid urbanization during the World Urban Forum (WUF 9)
“As a developing country, we are attending this forum to share with the international community our success and challenges in dealing with problems of...